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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

VICTORIA (B. c. advices of the oath
state that an unknown bark was wrecked
on the west coast of Vancouver Island and
twelve of the crew of twenty were
drowned.
HENRY M. STANLEY telegraphed on the
25th from Zanzibar that the expedition for
the relief of Emin Bey had started across
the country for the interior.
In Nice another slight earthquake shock
was felt on the 25th, but no damage was
done. Fifteen thousand people had left
that city and others were going.
In Odessa two men We're arrested on the
9th ult. for numbering their employer a
rich landlord named Goroszelo his wife
and eight children and several relatives,
and decamping with 800 900 rubles
THE death of Cardinal Jacobini, the
Pope's Secretary of State, occurred at
Rome on the 30th ult., at the age Of fifty
five years.
IT was stated on the 2Sth by De GERS, the
Russian Foreign Minister, that there would
be no war.
THE total number of deaths by the recent
earthquakes in Italy was placed on the
2Sth at six hundred The damage to prop
erty was estimated at ST. 000,000
A CHINESE junk was reported ON the 2Sth
ult. to have been wrecked off the Socctra
coast with 594 persons on board.
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FOES OF SECRET LODGES.
A Conference of Those Opposed to Secret
Societies to Be Held in Chicago in
March.

A Conference of Those Opposed to Secret
Societies to Be Held in Chicago in
March.
CHICAGO, Feb. 25-An anti-secret So
ciety conference has been called TO meet in
Madison Street Theater March 80, at $50
a. m, which is to be in session two days
and evenings, for the purpose Of
considering the nature and principles
of the secret lodge system and
its influence on the Christian religion and
civil liberty. The call for the conference
has been issued at the request of promi-
nent men in various denominations. 1t is
the result of meeting held in the parlors
of Farwell Hall July IA last, at which a
committee was appointed to ascertain
what support such a conference would
be likely to receive from leading men
of the various Christian denomna-
tions, and in reply to their inquiries the
following gave their voices decidedly in
favor of calling such meeting: James Nc
Gosh, D. D., president Princeton College,
N. j.; T. P. Stevenson, D. D., editor Chris
tan Statesman; D. W. Collins, D. D., j. A.
Collins, D. d. editors Christian Instructor,
Philadelphia; T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D.,
Brooklyn, and many others.
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THE TRADE-DOLLAR.
The States in Which Most of the Debased
Cniu Ie HaId

The States in Which Most of the Debased
Coin Is Held.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26-The bill for the re-
demption of trade dollars which has passed
the National Legislature and is now await
ing the Presidents signature has aroused
considerable discussion regarding the
number of these base coins now in
this country. The number has been vari-
ously estimated at 100000, 10000 600, and
30,000,000 Messrs. Zimmerman & Forsay,
bankers at No. 10 Wall street, have COM
piled list of the principal holders of the
deprecated coin in the United States.
The largest individual holder is John
Wanamaker, the Philadelphia dry-goods
merchant, who has from Sc, 900 to 100000
of the debased coin. Other Philadelphia
individuals and firms hold all the way
from $4,000 to 5000 In this city the
Germania Bank has $4,000, and in Brook
Ign the First National Bank is said to have
in its possession about $4,000
One of the members of the firm declared
that the following summary of the amount
held in this country was nearly an exact
statement as possible without an actual
canvas of each firm or bank in the States /:
Pennsylvania, $2,000,000; New York, ST.
100000; New Jersey, $3.50, COO; Connecticut,
100000; Ohio, 100000; Virginia, $4,000;
Massachusetts, $25, 900. "The balance of
the $1,000, 900 or 5000, 00O held in this coun-
try" added the speaker, sis scattered
through the other States and held by per-
sons that we have been unable to reach"
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FINISHED ITS WORK.

The Union Labor Conference at Cincin-
mittee and Adjourns.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 25-The Union Labor
convention selected the following National
Executive Committee:
Alabama, J. J. Woodall; California, r. e.
Davis; Dakota Territory, ]. o. Dean; Illinois, j.
B. Clark; Indiana, Thomas Gruelle; Iowa, w.
H. Babb; Indian Territory, M. N. Lovin;
Kansas, w. D. Vincent; Kentucky, l.. A.
Wood; Maryland, Charles A. Mettie; Mas.
sachusetts, M. Johnston; Missouri, J. No
Ian; Nebraska, E. Hull; New Hampshire,
George Carpenter; New Jersey, w. D. Dubois;
New York, J. L Hoyt; North Carolina J. R.
Winston; Ohio, Charles Jenkins; Oregon. E. w.
Pike; Pennsylvania, John p Zane; Rhode
Island, Holmes w. Merton; Tennessee, j. R.
Mills; Texas, Captain Sam Evarts; West Vir-
ginia, J. K. Thompson; Washington Territory,
George N. Smith.
1t was resolved that the planks in the
platform of land, transportation, money,
income tax and Chinese labor be recog-
nized as the National platform of the party,
and that the States adopt the others at
their pleasure. In the afternoon L. d. Nc
Donald, Knight of Labor cabinet-maker,
of Springfield, O., was chosen secretary OF
the National Committee and A. j. Streeter,
Of Illinois, treasurer. After compliment
tary speeches the convention adjourned
sine die. A meeting ratifying the new
party was held in the evening.
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WEST AND SOuTH.

THE general managers of the Western
railways met in Chicago on the 25th and
resolved that business be revised to con-
form to the requirements of the Inter State
Commerce law.
DARBY q Co.'S candy factory in Balti-
more, Nd, was burned on the 18th, caus-
ing loss Of Sl50,000.
GOVERNOR LEE, of Virginia, issued a
proclamation on the 25th calling an extra
session of the Legislature March 16.
THE sudden death of Commodore William
T. Truxton United States navy, retired,
occurred on the 18th at Norfolk, Va -~~-
THE Texas Senate passed prohibitory
amendment to the constitution on the 25th
which will be submitted to the people the
first Thursday of August next.
A CYCLONE struck Eatontown, Ga, on
the Goth ult. The academy was blown
from its foundations and wrecked, and
alany residences were badly damaged,
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TIE NEW s.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
xLIxth CONGRESS.

Second Session.
THURSDAY, Feb. PA House bill was
passed in the Senate to extend the laws of
the United States over certain morgan
lied territory south of the State of Kansas.
A resolution was offered to provide for the
election of United States Senators by the
people. The House substitute for the Fish
cry Retaliation bill was disagreed to. The
Pleuro- Pneumonia and the Land Grant
bills were discussed In caucus Senator
Ingalls, (Kan.) was..nominated for President
Of the Senate, vice Senator Sherman, re-
signed. In the House the Dependent Pen
sion bill failed to pass over the Presidents
veto by a vote Of rs to 125. Four messages
vetoing pension bills were received from
the President. The Naval bill was further
considered.
FRIDAY, Feb. Ex-senator ingalls, Kan
was chosen President pro tempore of the
Senate in place of Senator Sherman
resigned. A substitute was adopted
for the Pleuro-Pneumonia bill appropriate
ing 100000 to aid the State authorities in.
preventing the spread of pleuro-pneumo-
MIA among cattle. The Fisheries Retail
iation bill was discussed, and the
Diplomatic and Consular bill, which
appropriates $1,43O,442 was reported.
In the House the Senate bill providing for
agricultural experiment stations was
passed. The conference report on the In
valid-Pension Appropriation bill was
agreed to, and the General Deficiency APP
preparation bill (s3, 573, 500 was reported
G. Fl. Page (Dem.), recently elected from
the Second Congressional district of Rhode
Island, took the oath of office.
Iob Oc T., +l,o A. =
bill appropriating $4,000 to complete
the monument to Mary the mother of
Washington, at Fredericksburg, Va, was
passed, as was also the bill to reimbur
the depositors of the Freedman's Savings
and Trust Company and the Agricultural
and Diplomatic measures. The credentials
of Mr.. Reagan, OF Texas, Mr.. Stewart, of
Nevada, and Mr.. Bate, of Tennessee, as
Senators, were received and placed on file.
Messages were presen ted from the Presi-
dent vetoing two pension bills. Senator
ingalls, took the oath of Office as presiding
officer. In the House the Senate amend
ment to the River and Harbor Appropria-
ton bill was non -concurred in. The con-
ference report on the bill for the location
and erection of branch Soldiers Home
west of the Rocky Mountains was agreed to.
MONDAY Feb. g. Bill were passed in
the Senate to prevent the employ
ment of convict and alien labor upon
public works and of convict labor IN the
preparation of materials for public works;
providing for the adjustment Of railroad
IMMIGRANTS and for the forfeiture of I'M
earned lands; providing for arbitration in
labor troubles; prohibiting the mailing of
newspapers and other periodicals contain
ing lottery advertisements. In the House
the time was principally occupied in dis
cussing the Legislative Appropriation bill,
but no action was taken. At the evening
session resolutions expressive OF regret at
the demise of Representative Cole, of
Maryland, were adopted.
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PENSION BILLS DlSAPPROVED.
The President Objects to Favoring Officers
at the Expense OF the Privates.

Aho IrSSluenC ODJectS TO EaVOrlng O11c0rS
at the Expense OF the Privates.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is The President
Wednesday vetoed the following bills:
Granting pension to Anthony Robertson,
for the relief of William e. Morshiser,
and increasing the pensions of Margaret R.
Jones and Loren Burritt. The beneficiary
in the last-named bill was Lieutenant
Colonel of the Eighth Regular United
States colored troops, and he is now re-
ceiving pension of seventy two dollars
per month. In withholding his approval
in this case the President says:
1.-THE condition of this claimant at this pres.
ent time is most pitiable. No man can check,
if he would, the feeling of sympathy and pity
aroused by the contemplation of utter help
lessness as the result of patriotic and faith
full military service. But in the midst of all
this / can not put out of mind the sol
diers in this condition who were prvates
in the ranks, who sustained the utmost
hardships of war, but who, because they were
raGivates, and in the humble walks of life. are
80 apC TO share in special faYors of Con-
gTessional action. I find no reason why this
beneficiary should be singled out from his
class except it be that he was Lieutenant
Colonel instead Of private
81 am aware of precedent for The legisla-
ton proposed which is furnished by an enact
ment of the last session of Congress, to which
assented as 1 think, improvidently; but am
certain that exact equality and fairness in the
treatment OF our veterans is, after all, more
just, benefcent and useful than unfair discrim.
ination in favor of officers or the special benefit
born of sympathy in individual cases.
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MANY VICTIMS.

Over 1,4o0 Deaths from the EARTHQUAKE
in Italian Towns--Many Persons Badly
Injured - Paris Crowded with Terror
Stricken Refugees-Relief Measures.
LONDON, Feb. 26.-Dispatches from Rome
give the following official list of killed and
wounded in Italy: Bajaradow, 800 killed;
Diano Marina, $50 killed; Bressano 80
killed and S6 injured; Diano CASTILLO, 80
killed; Castellano, 80 killed and many in
jured. tits estimated that in the province of
Porto Maurizio $50 persons were killed and
156 injured. In the Province of Genoa 81
were killed and 81 injured. The number of
persons killed is less than was supposed.
Bajaradow and Diano Marina were the only
places destroyed. Cervo was only partial.
~ damaged. The churches at Baiaradow,
Castellaro and Aurigo were thrown down
by the severity of the shock
Dispatches from Genoa say that the pop
ulace slept out of doors Thursday night.
Many went aboard ships in the harbor and
1900 fled from the city by rail. At house
near Diano- Marine d ball was proceeding
when the shock came. The building
was completely wrecked and ter
rible loss OF life resulted. The dancers
lay dead in heaps upon the ground.
Many of the houses destroyed had
large tanks underneath filled with olive
Oil, intended for expectation to France and
Germany. a party of soldiers in explSr-
ing the ruins found Judge Rossi lying be-
meath mass OF debris, still alive. While
the men were trying to extricate him a
beam fell, killing the judge and wounding
sUldier. Fifteen thousand people have
left Nice ard the exodus continues.
The Montfort chateau at Cole is leaning
like the far-famed tower of Pisa. The
Queen of Wurtemburg has given e2OO for
the relief of the distressed sufferers, and
the King and Government of Italy have
subscribed $4,000.
PARIS, Feb. 2j.-M. Goblet, the Prime
Minister, has sent to the Project of Nice
the first remittance of 10000 francs for the
relief of the sufferers by the earthquake.
He will wait for further reports from the
districts affected before asking credit
from the Chamber of Deputies for the
benefit of the sufferers. General Boulanger.
Minister of War, has placed detachment
of engineers at the disposal of the Project
of Nice.
Flammary and other astronomers pre-
dict further shocks, but say the disturb
ances will be less severe. Slight damage
was done in the Bases Alpes In the de-
partment of Var the walls of houses and
churches are cracked, but no lives were
lost At Nice and Cannes the panic is SUBJ
siding, and the inhabitants who have been
camping out are returning home.
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Coal to Be Advanced in Price.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 1.-The railroad
coal operators of Western Pennsylvania
intend to advance the price of coal in the
lake markets on May to correspond with
the recent advance in freight rates and the
advance of wages which will go into effect
on that date. The extent of the advance
has not yet been decided upon, but it will
probably amount to about twenty cents a
ton; namely, from ninety cents to 81. 10 at
the tipple. 1t is expected that with an
amicable arrangement with the Hooking
Valley operators these prices can be main
tanned without difficulty.
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A Big Undertaking.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 26.-Ira d. Sankey,
the evangelist, whose gospel hymns are
now sung on two continents, will leave in
a few days to confer with his old co-labor-
er, Mr.. Moody, in Chicago. These two men
have on hand a monstrous undertaking
They will endeavorto evangelize Chicago,
and to this end will erect building in
that city to cost $3.50, 900 for the training of
Christian workers. The money, the great
er portion of which is donated by the
wealthy residents of Chicago, has been
about all secured
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Victims of the Earthquake Now Estima-
ted at Six Hundred.

PARIS, March From a comparison Of
all reports it is estimated that so persons
lost their lives by the recent earthquakes.
Many places are yet to be heard from. At
Mentone the damage is estimated at 2,O0O,-
900. An American gentleman and wife at
the Hotel Bellevue, in Mentone, at the time
of the distur Dances, were hemmed in their
bedroom by falling beams and were res
cued with great difficulty, the lady being
compelled to sacrifice her hair.
ROME, March Thirty houses have
fallen in Claris in consequence Of the dam.
age done by the earthquakes. A slight
shock was felt at Diano- Merino yesterday.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

Miss A. L. DUFFY, daughter of a
well-known patent attorney, died the
other day in Washington. AS she
breathed her last all the bells in the
dining-room, communicating with diff
ferent rooms, rang violently. No
body having touched the bells, and as
the wires of I'LL, save one, were broken,
the affair created mysterious feeling
of awe in the household.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

THE production of precious metals in
this country during 1886 exceeded that
of any previous year since 1880. The
gold production amounted to $50, 000,-
600, against $S1, 800, 900 in 1885, an in
crease of over 100000. The produc-
ton of silver was $40, S95, $50. The
amount of gold bullion imported into
the United States was $17,947,51S and
the exports $27 S62,6S7. The importa-
tions were made since August last.
There was also imported $23, SOL, sos in
GOLD coin, and $13, 1913, S6S in gold coin
was exported. The total exports of gold
bullion and coin were $41, PSI, 276.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

AN incident occurred in one of
Francis Murphys meetings in Chicago
the other day which brought the audi
enco to tears. "A young man named
William L. Bliss, who had been a
drunkard for fifteen years, went for
ward and asked to sign the pledge,
and then knelt on the platform and in
voked Gods pardon for the ruin he
had wrought on his wife and children.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04
The wabash Railroad Troubles.

ST. LOUIS, Feb 25-The receivers of the
Wabash have been notified that the pur-
chasing committee will be on hand and
prepared to pay into court, next Tuesday,
81, DOC, 900 in cash or receivers certificates,
and file their bond for 100000 to secure
such other demands as the court may here
after award. The committee now declares
it will not under any circumstances accept
the lines East on the original basis OF reor-
ganization. It will include them in the
plans of the Wabash, st. Louis & Western
Company, however, but only on the basis
OF four per cent. per annum interest, and
the funding Of all past due coupons.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

The seismoscope set up in the physi-
cal laboratory of the United States Sig
nal-Oflice at Washington was disturbed
by (and accurately recorded at 1850,
meridian time), the arrival at that
point of the recent earthquake that oc-
Cured in France and Italy. A rough
calculation gives about five hundred
miles per hour as the velocity of trans
mission
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

EIGHT condemned naval vessels are
to be sold for old junk and timber in
March, and among them are several
with histories, including the Lacka-
wanna, which was with Farragut in
Mobile bay, the Wachusett, which, in
defiance of Brazilian neutrality laws,
captured the Florida and the Powhat
tan, which carried the American flag
into the ports of Japan more than thirty
wears 400
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

AT Bayhorse, Idaho, the cabin of O.
Il, Putney was swept away by a recent
snow-slide. The rescuing party found
only three logs left, and the old man,
tightly wedged between them, dead,
His position indicated that he had been
reading paper, and one hand was ex-
tended as if he had tried to dig out.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

MAGGIE BEADING, the sixteen-year-
old bedridden daughter of a miner at
BankSyille, Pa, announced last No
vember that at two p. m. February II,
1887, she would be restored to health.
AT the appointed hour, it is said, she
arose from her bed, flung aside her
crutches and danced about the room to
the amazement of number of people
who had gathered to witness the
mirAcln.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

The recent explosion of two hun
dred cases of giant powder at Fort
Scott, Kan, was caused by a tramp
who wanted to steal a ride of fifteen
miles, and wanted to enjoy a smoke
while riding. They didn't even find a
vest button to prove up his remains.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

AT religious meeting in Erie Coun-
ty, Pa, the other night John Lewis,
aged seventeen years, was suddenly at
tackled with hydrophobia, and began
snarling and biting at persons in his
vicinity. Lewis, who was bitten five
years ago, was secured with difficulty.
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A BANQUET to Lowell.

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-The Harvard club of
this city, composed of ex-graduates of the
famous college, gave banquet at the Hotel.
fichelieu last night to James Russell Low.
ell Addresses were made by w. G.
Larned, Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, Rev r. S.
Osborne, Rev. s. ]. Mcpherson and Mr.
Lowell. The latter advised independence
in politics advocating voting on p,incipis
and not at party dictation..
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

IT is estimated that the recent ice
carnival at Montreal brought $1,000
600 in American money to that city.
The whole affair cost only $4,000.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 26 The Legislative Logan
Monument Commission held session here
yesterday, and Mrs. Logan made known
her desire that the remains of the Senator
be placed in the center of the circular plat
in Jackson Park, comprising forty acres,
and that her body be ultimately laid to
rest there. The commission concurred in
her selection, but definite action can not
be taken until July 1, as the law under
which the commission is to act does not be-
come operative until that time.
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GEORGE w McKLvEY, son of a
wealthy planter of Douglas County,
Ga, became infatuated with railway
work and secured situation as brake
man on the Georgia Pacific. Near his
home, while coupling cars recently, he
was cut in two by the wheels.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

THE results of the new censuses of
France and Germany would seem to in
dictate that condition of perpetual hos
tility to neighboring nations is not IA
vorable to increase of population. A
marked falling off in the rate of in
crease is shown. In the case of France
it was low enough formerly; now it
threatens to stop altogether, and in
many departments there has been con-
siderable decrease. The addition to
the population in five years has been
only one per cent. per annum. InGer-
many the case is not SO bad, but the an
nual increase has only been II per cent.
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MRS. pRusE HANGED.

Execution of the New York Woman Who
Killed Her Husband and Burned His
Remains-She Shrieks in Terror on Fac
ing the Eatal Noose-Story of Her Re-
voting Crime.
HERKIMER, n. Y, March Mrs. Roxa-
lana Druse, who shot her husband dead,
then, with the help of her children, cut up
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The expedition con-
sists of 8 European
officers, 81 Soudanese,
10 Somalis, 625 natives
of Zanzibar, 3 inter-
prefers, and Tippu
Tip, the Arab trader,
and 40 of his follow
ers. Couriers have
gone overland with
letters to Uganda,
while others have
been sent to Stanley
Falls to meet the
native chiefs. The
advance force will
nuSh on tn Wadeleh
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

A CORRESPONDENT says that this has
been the mildest winter st. Petersburg
has had for years, ''the thermometer
seldom going lower than twenty de-
grees below zero
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04

DIR. B. w. RICHARDSON, a we'll
known London physician, calls atten-
ton to the. peculiar periodicity of de-
lrim tremens in Great Britain. The
presence of the disease, as indicated bv
the mortality arising from it, begins to
be prominent in May, and attains its
maximum in July; thence maintaining
Its place with little change through Au-
gust, and declining through September.
1t reaches its average in October. There
is slight rise in the first week of JAN
uary, the result of holiday indulgence.
Wet and cloudy weather are both IA
vorable to the spread of the disease.